Re: Three steps we could take to make supply chain attacks a bit harder

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On Wed, 2024-04-03 at 00:15 +0200, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
> Adam Williamson wrote:
> > It occurs to me - maybe you don't agree, but this is how it looks to me
> > - that, ironically, you and I usually argue the exact *opposite* side
> > of this case, no? I argue in *favor* of somewhat-arbitrary delays to
> > packages appearing in 'stable', and you argue *against* them. :D
> 
> I have never argued against updates-testing existing or that all packages 
> should skip updates-testing. "Please pick up this new upstream version, it 
> has some great new features" as was done here is exactly the kind of changes 
> that SHOULD go through updates-testing. But if the maintainer has something 
> urgent to push out, such as an important regression fix or a critical 
> security fix (e.g., a fix for a backdoor like this one), they should be 
> allowed to decide to skip testing and not be treated as being too 
> incompetent for that (while at the same time allowing any other person, with 
> no other credentials than a FAS account, to +1 the package, allowing it to 
> be autopushed to stable – everyone except the one person most qualified to 
> make that decision). THAT is what I have been arguing for all this time, and 
> I do not see how this contradicts my position here in any way.

Fair enough. I think the rest of my post stands, though, as it was more
about my argument than yours.
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